System Migration Assistant

I have previously used SMA to migrate settings to new lenovo laptops, it it still available and if so where can i find it? I have to migrate some users to new lenovo thinkpad Edge Win 7 machines.
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System Migration Assistant (SMA) was withdrawn at the end of 2013.  See  http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?DocID=HT080684
Looks like the support website hasn't been totally cleaned up and still has an old version.  I don't recommend using it.

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    Yes Mark, It should be able to. I see why no reason why it shouldn't work.
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    Message was edited by: inknpaper

    inknpaper wrote:
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